Comment by karaterobot

> Callers who use AI technology must get prior consent from the people they are calling, the FCC said.

The text of the ruling says "prior express consent" instead of unsolicited. That seems clear, but I wonder whether it is in practice. Is the one of those things where, by signing up for website A and agreeing to their terms by clicking a checkbox, I am agreeing to allow my phone number to be called by robits from companies B-Z, because of some line buried in the middle of the legal text I didn't read? I.e. "The User consents to contact for any purpose by Website A and our partners", and a partner is defined as anybody who buys their contact list from them?

That is a case where the nature of T&Cs and end-user agreements makes the words "express" and "consent" more abiguous than they ought to be, since they rarely match anyone's definitions except the law's.